Diesels in the "Y"

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In a message dated 12/17/2005 10:10:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Of course with diesels, it really wouldn't  matter.



You are right about this, but believe it or not when we first got  diesels on 
the Tadpole on the Millstone turn out of Porstmouth I turned  more than one 
set of diesels in the Y at Millstone
because every thing was so knew to them the hoggers were paranoid  about the 
changing ends routine, afraid they would disable the units  somehow and we 
would all be stranded up this very dark hollow. Some Hogger  concerns were well 
founded-some of those early Alcos had an emergency fuel cut  off gizmo kinda 
like a lanyard with a red wooden ball. Well one day a West  bound with the these 
type Alcos was trying to pick up at Ironton Ohio  and when they get coupled 
back up to the train before they could leave  the head Brakemen decides to give 
the red ball a yank. They had the west bound  track tied up for about four 
hours.
                                                                              
                                                 Steam To Diesel what FUN !!
R F Smith
Owings Mills MD.
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